Pen injectors were introduced over 20 years ago to deliver liquid medication. They allow users to select a dose of medication and inject this via a needle connected to a small reservoir within the pen. View Summary

Pen injectors were introduced over 20 years ago to deliver liquid medication. They allow users to select a dose of medication and inject this via a needle connected to a small reservoir within the pen. In Europe, Japan and the US, pen injectors are commonly used to deliver insulin for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. In many countries they have largely replaced the traditional vial and syringe because they benefit patients by allowing accurate and easy dosage, whilst being convenient and discrete. Lantus®, a new once a day basal insulin, was originally offered in a licensed injector device but in order to sustain the development of the new insulin, Sanofi Aventis decided to begin developing its own pen in 2003. The new device could not be a ‘me too’ product; it had to offer significant improvements over all other disposable insulin devices on the market. In order to satisfy the needs of patients requiring high dose volumes of insulin, the new pen injector had to be capable of delivering a single dose of 80 insulin units (over 30% larger than all comparable devices on the market) with no penalty for comfort and convenience. In addition to being extremely robust, the device also had to satisfy the very high accuracy standards outlined in ISO-11608. The solution is SoloSTAR®. SoloSTAR® meets all of these requirements and exhibits significant advantages over previous devices in terms of comfort, safety and ease of use. Since its launch in 2007, SoloSTAR® has rapidly established itself as a leading disposable pen injector for insulin, accounting for 41% of all growth in the global injectable insulin market in 2008.

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